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Downgrade the Link Type

If an anonymous user sends a request but a remote DSA can provide only SSL or password-authorized links, the user is denied distributed operations, and receives the following error message:

No compatible link type.

To downgrade the link type between DSAs, set the following command in the appropriate knowledge configuration file:

trust-flags = allow-downgrading

Important! You should only use this command to permit unauthenticated DSA links within the one organization (or on the one host), or to grant access to a public server.

Example: Downgrade the Link Type

In this example, a user is connecting to one DSA using SSL authentication, and then requesting information from a second DSA that requires simple authentication (username and password). Unless the link is downgraded, the user receives the error message No compatible link type.

To downgrade the link, the Democorp DSA is configured with the trust flag allow-downgrading.